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Saturday, 13 August 2011

Well Done Mr Plod.

One of Britain’s finest undoes any respect for the Police gained after the looting and rioting. Why throw your weight around and alienate the public, when more than ever you need to bring the public onside?

In the past a good copper would have used the power of persuasion, complete with a smile to get the result he desired. The man complaining hadn’t actually committed an offence as far as I could perceive, other than filming the police and moving around.

Has it really come to the position that we are stopped because we might be thinking of committing an offence?

My stance is that you are innocent until proved guilty. The police have over the last few decades seemed to think that they have the god given right to unswerving subservience to their right to unquestioning obedience. They've conveniently forgotten the the Peelian principles. They need the ordinary people to support them. If not then they will fail.

They forget that even though that man was obnoxious, they are still servants of that member of the public.